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Product Director roles on OPT are available at tech companies, SaaS firms, and enterprise software organizations. Most require 8 or more years of product experience and a degree in computer science, business, or a related field. Your 12-month OPT window, or 24-month STEM extension, is enough time to secure H-1B visa sponsorship if you move quickly.
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About Rubrik
Join the public powerhouse that is securing the future of AI. Rubrik has officially entered a new era. Fresh off a headline-making successful IPO and boasting over $1.57 Billion in ARR, we have the market stability of a giant and the hunger of a startup. We’ve already conquered Data Security—now, we are pivoting to our most ambitious mission yet: Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation. As a Director, Product Design at Rubrik, you will be pioneering the next generation of User Experiences for the enterprise! From AI to air-gapped immutable backups to defending against ransomware, our tech stack is the definition of cyber resilience. We are a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader and a winner of the Red Dot & back-to-back iF Design Awards because we believe security and protection should be powerful and usable. Come build the safety net for the AI generation.
About The Team & Role
Our design team is strong and mighty, with about 60 amazing individuals from all walks of the industry and life located worldwide. As our company and our products grow rapidly, it is crucial to scale the experience of our product and our design team in the right way and with the right people. Every hire counts! We are seeking a Director, Product Design for our Palo Alto site. This is a pivotal leadership role where you will not only oversee a talented team of designers but also serve as a strategic partner to Engineering and Product leadership to make Rubrik the benchmark for enterprise design. Sneak peek into our product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9949Q-_onc&t=9s
- Build & Lead High-Performing Teams: Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of designers. You’ll be responsible for their career growth, providing coaching on both craft and navigational "soft" skills to help them scale their impact.
- Define Strategic Vision: Partner with VP and Director-level leadership in Product Management and Engineering to define the long-term roadmap. You’ll transform high-level business goals into actionable design strategies that balance immediate needs with a "North Star" vision.
- Champion Design Excellence: Ensure all team deliverables meet the highest standards of craft, usability, and visual consistency across the product.
- Drive Operational Excellence: Establish and refine design processes that allow the team to move fast without breaking the user experience. You will oversee the end-to-end execution of complex product areas, ensuring a high bar for quality and consistency.
- Evangelize Design Culture: Act as a primary advocate for Design across Rubrik. You’ll bridge the gap between technical complexity (cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure) and consumer-grade usability, ensuring that "Design" is seen as a business differentiator, not just a service.
- Deepen Customer-Centricity: Lead the team in cultivating direct customer relationships. You’ll ensure that research and validation are core components of the design cycle, keeping us grounded in real-world enterprise problems.
What You’ll Bring To The Team
- Leadership Experience: At least 3 years in a formal people management role.
- Strategic Portfolio: A portfolio that showcases not just beautiful UI, but your ability to lead teams through complex problem-solving, organizational shifts, and successful product launches.
- Business Acumen: The ability to speak the language of PMs and Engineers. You understand how design decisions impact the bottom line and technical debt.
- Communication Mastery: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills. You can command a room of executives and inspire a team of designers with equal ease.
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Design (Product, HCI, etc.) or equivalent experience. A Master’s degree in HCI or an MBA is a great bonus for this level.
If you’re up for the amazing challenge of setting a consumer-grade bar for enterprise design, this could be the role for you. Please send us your resume and a link to your work to noopur.mer@rubrik.com.
The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US Pay Range
$250,300—$350,800 USD
Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation
Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
Inclusion @ Rubrik
At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data. Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential. Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:
- Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
- Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.
- Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at hr@rubrik.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.
EEO IS THE LAW NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYEE RIGHTS UNDER FEDERAL LABOR LAWS
Location: Palo Alto, US
About Rubrik
Join the public powerhouse that is securing the future of AI. Rubrik has officially entered a new era. Fresh off a headline-making successful IPO and boasting over $1.57 Billion in ARR, we have the market stability of a giant and the hunger of a startup. We’ve already conquered Data Security—now, we are pivoting to our most ambitious mission yet: Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation. As a Director, Product Design at Rubrik, you will be pioneering the next generation of User Experiences for the enterprise! From AI to air-gapped immutable backups to defending against ransomware, our tech stack is the definition of cyber resilience. We are a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader and a winner of the Red Dot & back-to-back iF Design Awards because we believe security and protection should be powerful and usable. Come build the safety net for the AI generation.
About The Team & Role
Our design team is strong and mighty, with about 60 amazing individuals from all walks of the industry and life located worldwide. As our company and our products grow rapidly, it is crucial to scale the experience of our product and our design team in the right way and with the right people. Every hire counts! We are seeking a Director, Product Design for our Palo Alto site. This is a pivotal leadership role where you will not only oversee a talented team of designers but also serve as a strategic partner to Engineering and Product leadership to make Rubrik the benchmark for enterprise design. Sneak peek into our product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9949Q-_onc&t=9s
- Build & Lead High-Performing Teams: Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of designers. You’ll be responsible for their career growth, providing coaching on both craft and navigational "soft" skills to help them scale their impact.
- Define Strategic Vision: Partner with VP and Director-level leadership in Product Management and Engineering to define the long-term roadmap. You’ll transform high-level business goals into actionable design strategies that balance immediate needs with a "North Star" vision.
- Champion Design Excellence: Ensure all team deliverables meet the highest standards of craft, usability, and visual consistency across the product.
- Drive Operational Excellence: Establish and refine design processes that allow the team to move fast without breaking the user experience. You will oversee the end-to-end execution of complex product areas, ensuring a high bar for quality and consistency.
- Evangelize Design Culture: Act as a primary advocate for Design across Rubrik. You’ll bridge the gap between technical complexity (cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure) and consumer-grade usability, ensuring that "Design" is seen as a business differentiator, not just a service.
- Deepen Customer-Centricity: Lead the team in cultivating direct customer relationships. You’ll ensure that research and validation are core components of the design cycle, keeping us grounded in real-world enterprise problems.
What You’ll Bring To The Team
- Leadership Experience: At least 3 years in a formal people management role.
- Strategic Portfolio: A portfolio that showcases not just beautiful UI, but your ability to lead teams through complex problem-solving, organizational shifts, and successful product launches.
- Business Acumen: The ability to speak the language of PMs and Engineers. You understand how design decisions impact the bottom line and technical debt.
- Communication Mastery: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills. You can command a room of executives and inspire a team of designers with equal ease.
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Design (Product, HCI, etc.) or equivalent experience. A Master’s degree in HCI or an MBA is a great bonus for this level.
If you’re up for the amazing challenge of setting a consumer-grade bar for enterprise design, this could be the role for you. Please send us your resume and a link to your work to noopur.mer@rubrik.com.
The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US Pay Range
$250,300—$350,800 USD
Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation
Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
Inclusion @ Rubrik
At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data. Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential. Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:
- Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
- Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.
- Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at hr@rubrik.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.
EEO IS THE LAW NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYEE RIGHTS UNDER FEDERAL LABOR LAWS
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Product Director
Target companies with a STEM sponsorship track record
Director-level product roles require significant employer investment. Focus on companies that have sponsored H-1B visas for senior product hires before. Firms with established immigration programs move faster and rarely drop sponsorship mid-process.
Frame your OPT timeline during the offer stage
Disclose your OPT status before the offer letter, not after. Senior roles involve longer onboarding cycles, and HR needs lead time to initiate H-1B filing. Transparency at the offer stage prevents last-minute complications that derail otherwise strong candidacies.
Quantify product impact in terms executives care about
Revenue influenced, retention improved, and engineering hours saved are the metrics that justify Director-level sponsorship costs. Hiring managers need a business case for immigration spend. Concrete numbers give them exactly that without requiring internal advocacy on your behalf.
Prioritize companies filing H-1B in the October or April cap cycle
If your OPT expires mid-year, you need an employer who can file in the next available cap cycle. Confirm the company's fiscal year and HR readiness before accepting an offer. Timing misalignment is one of the most common OPT sponsorship failures at this level.
Lean on your STEM OPT extension if your degree qualifies
A STEM extension gives you 24 additional months on top of your initial 12, totaling 36 months of OPT. That window covers two H-1B lottery cycles, significantly improving your odds. Confirm your degree qualifies under the STEM designated degree program list before assuming eligibility.
Build internal champions before immigration conversations happen
At the Director level, sponsorship decisions often come from a VP or CPO, not HR alone. Establish trust with the hiring executive early. Leaders who want to retain strong product talent are far more likely to advocate internally for immigration support when it matters.
Product Director OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can F-1 OPT students work as a Product Director in the United States?
Yes. F-1 OPT authorizes you to work full-time in any role directly related to your degree field. Product Director positions typically require a degree in computer science, business, engineering, or a related discipline, which satisfies the OPT employment relationship requirement. Your role must align with your degree, not just your job title.
Do Product Director roles commonly come with H-1B sponsorship?
Many do, especially at mid-size and large tech companies where senior product leadership is a competitive hire. Because the cost of sponsoring a Director-level employee is small relative to total compensation, employers who want to retain strong candidates are usually willing to sponsor. Migrate Mate filters for sponsoring employers, making it easier to identify these opportunities without guesswork.
How does the 60-day grace period affect my job search for Product Director roles?
If your OPT ends or your employment terminates, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new employer. Product Director searches take longer than entry-level searches, so starting well before your OPT expires is critical. Use that grace period as a buffer, not a starting point. Roles at this level often take 6 to 12 weeks from first interview to signed offer.
Does a Product Director role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your underlying degree, not the job title. If your degree is in a STEM-designated field, such as computer science, information systems, or engineering, and your employer meets the E-Verify requirement, the role can support a STEM extension. The extension is tied to your degree program, not to what the employer calls the position.
What should I disclose about my OPT status when interviewing for Product Director positions?
Disclose your work authorization status before the final offer stage, ideally when the conversation turns serious. At the Director level, employers are making a significant hiring investment and need time to engage immigration counsel. Being upfront signals professionalism and gives HR room to prepare. Waiting until after an offer is extended creates friction that can cause otherwise strong offers to fall through.